“My inspiration for this perfume was driftwood. I live and work very close to the East and Hudson rivers – so close in fact that I commute by ferry. One day I spotted a beautiful piece of driftwood bobbing along, caught in the river’s current,” she remembers.
“The sun was beginning to set and created a stark contrast of this very weathered piece of wood in the water. I decided on the spot to create an accord celebrating the beauty of the experience and it became the unique signature of the fragrance.”
As a perfumer who delights in challenging convention and rules at every turn, Patricia embraced the opportunity to work on this project. “It was terrific to work without a brief for this fragrance. It left creative freedom up to the individual perfumer and I wish I could say that’s the way it would be all the time. But, it’s not the real world. Submitting a fragrance as it was, and having it accepted as it was, was a dream come true.”
“It was a pleasure, an extreme pleasure, working on your fragrance. It’s not often that we are allowed that creative freedom, and it is something that I will never forget.”